Workers at a printers on Laindon High Road during the 1970’s refused to work night shifts, as they were terrified of the poltergeist that inhabited the building. 

 

The printers was based in the original Fortune of War Public House.  The original Fortune of War was built during the early part of the 1800’s, with the current building dating from the early 1900’s.

 

One former member of staff remembered hearing footsteps walking around the building and into a room with only one door.  When the room was checked no one was there.

 

Boxes in a store room were thrown from the back of a shelf and across the room.  The witness states that they were not stacked very high and at the back of a deep shelf, so could not have fallen.